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Traditional knowledge system in disaster risk reduction: exploration, acknowledgement and proposition
(OASIS, 2019)
The last 60 years have witnessed advanced technological innovation for disaster risk reduction (DRR) with the invention of high-resolution satellite imagery, digital cartography and modern engineering building techniques ...
Knowledge apartheid in disaster risk management discourse: Is marrying indigenous and scientific knowledge the missing link?
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015)
Indigenous knowledge (IK) is a key component of disaster risk management (DRM) and development planning, yet it is often overlooked, with practitioners preferring to use scientific knowledge. Critics of IK have termed it ...